15 March 10

Features

Little London

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Forget mini-golf, this is mini-London, the Big Smoke as you've never seen it before, as a new photography exhibition by Toby Allen hits the capital

Are these photographs of real London landmarks, or are they actually scale models? In a fascinating and ongoing project, British photographer Toby Allen uses a technique known as “tilt-shift” to capture his favourite city in miniature, converting images of everyday city life into a toy-town state.

“With these pictures I want to encourage the citizens of London and its visitors to view it from a different perspective,” he says. “Tilt-shift lenses were first used by architects to gain perspectives on very large buildings. By blurring two sections of the photograph the image effectively tricks the human eye into thinking it’s looking at something very small like a model.”

Toby’s project, Little London, is on show now (until 8 April) at cueB gallery in Brockley, south-east London, and the theme will continue as he prepares for an exhibition coinciding with the London 2012 Olympic Games, when the eyes of the world will be on the city.

FOR EXHIBITION DETAILS, VISIT WWW.THEBROCKLEYMESS.COM, AND FOR MORE ON TOBY’S WORK CHECK OUT WWW.LITTLELONDONPHOTOS.COM AND WWW.TOBYALLENPHOTOGRAPHY.CO.UK

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